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9-letter words containing k, p

  • leakproof — designed to prevent leaking: a leakproof bottle.
  • leetspeak — a coded spelling system and language used in very informal communications on the Internet, featuring letters combined with numbers or special characters in place of letters that they may resemble, and including inventive misspellings, jargon, and slang.
  • lick-spit — a contemptible, fawning person; a servile flatterer or toady.
  • lickpenny — something that uses up large amounts of money
  • linkoping — a city in S Sweden.
  • lipsticks — Plural form of lipstick.
  • lock step — a way of marching in such close file that the corresponding legs of the marchers must keep step precisely
  • locked up — Synonym for hung, wedged.
  • look upon — regard, consider: as
  • loop knot — a knot made by doubling over a line at its end and tying both thicknesses into a square knot in such a way as to leave a loop.
  • luckpenny — a coin kept for luck
  • lucky dip — game: picking out random prize
  • making-up — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
  • maplelike — Resembling a maple tree or some aspect of one.
  • mapmakers — Plural form of mapmaker.
  • mapmaking — Cartography, the making of maps and charts.
  • marked-up — a visible impression or trace on something, as a line, cut, dent, stain, or bruise: a small mark on his arm.
  • miniparks — Plural form of minipark.
  • mispacked — filled to capacity; full: They've had a packed theater for every performance.
  • mispickel — arsenopyrite.
  • misspoken — Simple past tense and past participle of misspeak.
  • mock epic — a long, humorous poem written in mock-heroic style.
  • mock lisp — The Lisp used by the Gosling Emacs editor.
  • monkey up — To hack together hardware for a particular task, especially a one-shot job. Connotes an extremely crufty and consciously temporary solution. Compare hack up, kluge up.
  • monkeypod — a tropical American tree, Samanea saman, of the legume family, having spreading branches and dense heads of small, pink flowers.
  • monkeypot — the woody, operculate seed vessel of any of certain large South American trees of the genus Lecythis.
  • monkeypox — A viral disease of African origin, related to smallpox and transmitted to humans through fluid exchange by rodents and primates.
  • moreporks — Plural form of morepork.
  • moss pink — a phlox, Phlox subulata, of the eastern U.S., having showy pink to purple flowers.
  • muck heap — a pile of dung, soil or refuse
  • muckheaps — Plural form of muckheap.
  • multipack — a packaged item containing two or more products sold as a unit.
  • navpaktos — Greek name of Lepanto.
  • neckpiece — a scarf, especially one of fur.
  • netkeeper — Alternative name for a goalkeeper.
  • nipperkin — (archaic) A small cup or other vessel, of perhaps 1/8 pint in volume.
  • nit-picky — tending to raise petty objections; pernickety
  • nitpicked — Simple past tense and past participle of nitpick.
  • nitpicker — a person who nitpicks, especially habitually.
  • np tricky — (humour)   A play on NP hard describing an algorithm or piece of code that is too complicated for a mere mortal to understand.
  • nukespeak — Informal. euphemistic language and obscuring jargon used in discussions of nuclear weapons, nuclear power, etc.: nukespeak that minimizes the risks of nuclear war.
  • nymphlike — Resembling a nymph.
  • oak apple — oak gall.
  • opa-locka — a town in S Florida.
  • open book — someone or something easily understood or interpreted; something very clear: The child's face is an open book.
  • open look — (operating system)   A graphical user interface and window manager from Sun and AT&T.
  • open mike — a session in a pub or club where members of the public are invited to perform comedy or to sing
  • open-book — someone or something easily understood or interpreted; something very clear: The child's face is an open book.
  • ouspensky — Peter Demianovich [pee-ter di-myah-nuh-vich;; Russian pyawtr dyi-myah-nuh-vyich] /ˈpi tər dɪˈmyɑ nə vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈpyɔtr dyɪˈmyɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1878–1947, Russian philosopher and author.
  • outspeaks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outspeak.
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